ORIGIN OF THE TURKMENS
A BRIEF STUDY ON THE TOPIC ON ANCIENT LAYERS IN ENTHOGENESIS OF OUR PEOPLE When studying the ethnogenesis of any nation, historians ask themselves one of the main questions - whether the people being studied are of local (autochthonous) origin or whether alien tribes and peoples had a greater influence on their ethnogenesis. The question of the ethnogenesis of the Turkmens is no exception here, since the historians have been trying to unravel the origin of our people for at least a hundred years, although the issue of the genealogy of the Turkmens has in fact concerned historians for more than a century. Let us try to provide some evidence and facts of archaeological, ethnographic, linguistic and historical nature about the ancient strata in the ethnogenesis of Central Asian Turkmens who live in the territory of modern Turkmenistan, Iran, Afghanistan, and Uzbekistan. ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS OF THE TERRITORY OF TURKMENISTAN Famously , over the past few decades, archaeolo